Improvement in medical compounds for treating horses  hoofs



TTNIT STATES PATENT ()FFICEO JOSEPH C. BURROUGHS, OF CLINTON, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS FOR TREATING HORSES HOOFS, &c-

Specification forming part of Letters Pal out No. 145,047, dated Decr-mbcr 2, 1873; application filed July 11,1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnrn C. Bonnoocns, of Clinton, Lenawee county, Michigan, have invented a certain Composition of Matter or Improvement in Medical Compounds, being a new and useful ointment, and called Dr. Burroughs Hoof and Healing Ointment, of which the following is a specification:

This invention belongs to that class of medical compounds known as ointment and consists in a composition formed by the ingredients hereinafter specified, and in the manner and proportions set forth.

For making my ointment I use eight ingredients, as follows: Four ounces of lard; one ounce of sugar, C coffee, or best brown three-fourths ounce of beeswax one-halfounce resin two ounces of IllllttOIl-ttllOW four grains of Verdigris; one-half oinlce of rawlinseed-oil; one-half ounce of tin'pentine.

I first put the lard and sugar together, and heat over a fire until they come to a boil; 1 then strain off this compound, while hot, through factory-cloth; I then add the bees-wax and resin, and heat till all are well melted; then,

removing this from the fire, l innnediately add the tallow, and stir all well together; I next add the verdigris, and stir the same in thoroughly and when this compound is cooled to the temperature of blood-heat, I add the raw oil and turpentine, and stir until the whole be comes cool. The ointment is then ready for use.

The compound is designed especially as a hoof ointment for horses, although it is used with great success in healin galls, ulcers, and other sores, and is good for both man and beast.

VhatI claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The ointment or medical compound above described, composed of the ingredients specified, and compounded in the proportions and in the manner substantially as set forth.

VVituess myhand this 5th day of September,

JOSEPH G. BURROUGHS. Vitnesses S. C. STACY, S. H. MERRITT. 

